(Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday barred Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio from detaining people simply for being in the country illegally, in a ruling that faulted the local lawman for enforcing federal immigration law.

The opinion by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow came on the same day he issued legal sanctions against Arpaio over destroyed documents.

The sheriff already has faced rebukes from federal agencies over his controversial efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.

Both rulings by Snow stemmed from a 2007 civil lawsuit against Arpaio and his agency, which accuses his officers of racial profiling of Latinos in traffic stops ...

Iowa - He has set himself apart from the rest of the Republican field as the candidate who believes the United States should shed its role as the world’s policeman and focus instead on its internal economic problems. Representative Ron Paul of Texas says he would cut a trillion dollars out of the federal budget his first year as president, in part by ending all foreign wars and foreign aid, including to Israel.

As a child the first stop at the zoo would be the elephant pen. I'd sit and stare at these large creatures as they stood on the edge of the moat waiting for someone to throw peanuts for them to eat. If you looked real close, into their eyes, you could see the sadness that swept through them knowing they really didn't want to be there.

Their innocuous demeanor and incredible memory is what mesmerizes most people. It's what drew me in.

Paul can also siphon off votes from Obama. "Progressives" being disillusioned with President Wall Street's lack of action to bring some of that cosmic justice down on the heads of the bankers who caused the financial crisis.

Auditing the Fed was thought to be an absurd idea two years ago. Yet some how, it got done, and what we all suspected was confirmed.

A federal judge denied an attempt by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to get a lawsuit by a Chandler police officer dropped. The suit accuses Sheriff Joe Arpaio and other county employees of unconstitutional arrest and prosecution related to the death of his K-9 partner, Bandit.

Chandler police Officer Thomas Lovejoy was arrested and charged with animal cruelty following the August 2007 death of Bandit, who died in the back of Lovejoy’s patrol SUV after the officer forgot the dog.

A justice of the peace in the San Tan Justice Court in Chandler acquitted Lovejoy of animal abuse in 2008, and the officer filed a notice of claim that year seeking $350,000 in damages.

Arpaio sought a summary judgment in his favor, but U.S. District Judge Neil Wake refused Friday, saying Lovejoy had sufficient evidence that Arpaio acted maliciously to bring the case to a jury.

One of the big knocks on Gindrich is that he is undisciplined, a big idea man who neglects details, all hat and no cattle.

He has failed to put together the necessary organization and he lacks money. He's had a free ride through the debates but now the debates are ending and he needs an organization if he has a chance of succeeding.

Paul probably cannot be elected president, but neither could Eugene Debs or Norman Thomas. They campaigned as socialists, not expecting to win the presidency but hoping to expand the menu of topics that were politically debatable, which they did.

Debs ran in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912, and in 1920 from prison, where the progressive Woodrow Wilson administration had sent him for violating the Espionage Act by speaking against World War I. (President Warren Harding, who is as despised by today’s progressive intelligentsia as Wilson is adored, commuted Debs’s sentence and invited him to the White House.) Thomas ran in six consecutive elections, 1928-48...

The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River from Lake Havasu City near Parker into central and southern Arizona. The CAP is the largest and most expensive aqueduct system ever constructed in the United States. CAP is managed and operated by the Central Arizona Water Conservation District

The CAP delivers Colorado River water, either directly or by exchange, into central and Southern Arizona. The project was envisioned by Senator Barry Goldwater, to provide water to nearly one million acres (405,000 hectares) of irrigated agricultural land areas in Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties, as well as municipal water for several Arizona communities, including the metropolitan areas of Phoenix and Tucson.

The Israeli's have been yelling for at least a decade that that Iran is about to develop a nuclear weapon. As far as our intelligence agencies know this is all a pack of out right lies. In both Israel and the USA there is a group of insane politicians who want to start WW3 by attacking Iran. The former heads of the Mossad Meir Dagan and Efriam Halevey have said that an attack on Iran would be the stupidist thing possible. Santorum Gingrich, Romney, are all chicken hawks kow towing to the Israeli lobby. Bachman belongs back on a Kibbutz in Israel, picking oranges. Obama has been owned by the Lobby since he was a guy running for the state legislature. The only hope for peace before we blow up the world is vote for Ron Paul. End the Sanctions. Send an ambassador to Tehren and start negotiating all our problems. Sanctions are a prelude to war and so is all this war propaganda. The are all liars and criminals. Shame on us if we fall for their lies again.

But Ron Paul’s portfolio isn’t merely different. It’s shockingly different.Yes, about 21% of Rep. Paul’s holdings are in real estate and roughly 14% in cash. But he owns no bonds or bond funds and has only 0.1% in stock funds. Furthermore, the stock funds that Rep. Paul does own are all “short,” or make bets against, U.S. stocks. One is a “double inverse” fund that, on a daily basis, goes up twice as much as its stock benchmark goes down.The remainder of Rep. Paul’s portfolio – fully 64% of his assets – is entirely in gold and silver mining stocks....

The water issue is a worldwide issue. The whole north of China is rapidly turing into desert. The water from farms is being diverted to new urban centers of a million or more people that are springing up overnight. Their water table is dropping faster than they can dig new wells.

The desalinization idea sounds nice. Kinda like being able to wean ourselves off ME oil in a year.

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.